Order by the year each player joined the New York Jets. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Jets players are the cards, each to be placed by the year he first joined the franchise. Each card also prints a position abbreviation. The timeline starts with one player and his year visible. For every card after that, pick the gap you think is right. Pick well and the year appears; pick badly and the player still moves to his true place, but you lose one of three lives.
The Jets started out in the AFL as the New York Titans, and the deck's earliest cards come from that time. After a famous upset that put the AFL on the map, the club spent many seasons chasing that moment, with the occasional strong defense in between. Running backs are the most common label, and every era fielded them, so the position helps less than you'd think. Players from those long chasing years are easy to put in the wrong place.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.